Wow. There is nothing like driving to the post office (on a cloudy, cold day) to sign for a SURPRISE package with a gorgeous, inspiring painting inside from a super sweet friend. You rock, Katherine! I only questioned for a split second why I was the special recipient–I was mostly giddy and big-eyed. The [...]

Sorry to exclude my brothers out there. This is for sisters only. Maybe next time.
I know y’all are itchin’ for summer time and sleeping under the stars and breathing some fresh mountain air. Well, at least I am. I’m dreaming of doing yoga barefoot in an open meadow, sitting in prayer in front of a [...]

I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since I posted. I returned from the islands last week and hit the ground running (and snow-shoeing!) and am trying to hold on to the calmness I felt being near the ocean. It was just what I needed. I feel renewed and re-energized despite feeling a little [...]

It was fun to read all the comments on the eject post-it-note post. Seems like some of you have been in that same place before, and others are maybe standing there present moment. A friend (who is maybe standing some place in between, or rather staring at her eject button from a distance but [...]

When we were playing at the City Museum in Stl–surrounded by so much funky ART–Patrick said he wanted our house to be MORe fun (like the museum). (Hey! “fun” is my favorite word. Patrick claims it will be our kids’ first word someday.) He went on to dream up this spiral slide coming off [...]

I took my Nepali language book off the shelf yesterday just for fun and to remind myself of what I know (somewhere deep in the back of my brain). When I opened it, I found this inside:
If case you can’t tell, that’s a post-it note with a drawing of an eject button on it.
For a [...]

Happy new year. It’s good to be home after a fun visit with family. And after a week of bitter -20 nights, it is a sunny and ‘hot’ 40 degrees today–warm enough that I don’t have to think about freezing as I walk with Oso. And no eyelash-icicles. It is nice looking back at the [...]

What looks at first to be a construction site/obvious death-trap-for-kids
is the coolest playground EVER.
While home for the holidays, Patrick and I went on a little adventure to the City Museum. What’s that, you ask? a Dr. Seuss-Moustrap game. a ride down the rabbit hole. and the brain child of artist/sculptor Bob Cassilly.
I remember visiting in [...]

My good friend Lisa is having a show of her Holga photographs tonight at TetonArtLab in Jackson Hole, WY. (yeah, Lisa! woohoo!) I wish I could buy them all and hang them as a grid in my studio, but well, my studio is small so I chose these 3 instead. I just can’t wait [...]

I just saw the documentary Helvetica (thanks Beth!). I was never trained in typography–I was an illustration major, not design. But I LOVE type, and this film was super inspiring to me in different ways…new views, old views, history, permission to play more, and an assortment of ideas about how it can ‘be’. Check it [...]